New York BurningBy: Jill Lepore PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ANISFIELD WOLF AWARD WINNER A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics. Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth century New York in all its moral and physical messiness. The New Yorker A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often.